More-than-human
Highlights
Harleigh Fungalford Castle: an audio guide to an imagined heritage ruin
This sound walk through an imaginary castle can be performed at any 'heritage' site. The guide challenges how visitors experience the prompts of historical interpretation by adding layers of imagined history that are mysterious and arbitrary. The style imitates conventional interpretive audio guides, before revealing a narrative that is non-didactic, destabilizing, weird and comical. I made space for class commentary and for including the more-than-human. This audio was mostly improvised while walking and slightly refined afterwards. It was then recorded at five different sites, including two Norman ruined castles, one in England and one in Wales and a Neolithic burial chamber. You may begin this walk anywhere. It is intended to take 25-45 minutes.
Deep Time Walk
The Deep Time Walk App guides users through a 4.6 km walk narrating Earth’s 4.6 billion-year evolutionary history using a scale where 1 metre equals 1 million years, highlighting humans’ brief existence and recent industrial impact. It integrates science and poetry, includes a mobility-assist mode, and connects walkers to environmental advocacy resources.
Remote togetherness – reflections on Prespes and walking in situ
This paper builds on previous work from Prespes 2019, combining memories of walking the land with reflections on COVID-19’s impact on mobility. It explores themes of contested territory, deep listening, and ancestral connections through a performative audio format that integrates poetic, theoretical, and meditative elements.
Articles elsewhere
The deliberate act of listening
On a walk around my local river over the weekend, I was listening to podcasts* I rarely have time for, enthralled by not only the Scottish accents and fluent speakers of Scottish Gàidhlig—a language I’ve been learning for several months, but ideas of c...
Tulips and Tractors
Tracing feral routes and ecologies between the site of Ware’s Nursery and Bath City Farm;Prospecting for local histories of growing;Exploring the potential of regenerative farming.A scoping and capacity building project November 2022 to April 2023 nurturing conversations and networks through the development and delivery of a public walk connecting across the Whiteway Road in BathBuilding on the creative and collaborative working practices of Blooming Whiteway and Bath City Farm and [...]
